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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Bjarne Stroustrup

This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Effort Java May
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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Details Find Head Need
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy

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